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Always up on the latest trends and news in Portland, the New York Times has once again waded into our waters.Or, depending on how you look at it, our SNAFU—the Columbia River Crossing.The paper recounts the $3.4 billion project's failure, and recounts how local leaders, namely Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, are working to find other ways to make elements of the CRC ...
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If the CRC is dead, why are state officials still seeking permission to build it?

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About 25 opponents of the now-defunct Columbia River
Crossing raised their drinks at Produce Row’s bar July 12 to celebrate
the megaproject’s death.
The happy hour
included activists, econ
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The Oregon Government Ethics Commission today voted to formally investigate potential ethics law violations by Gov. John Kitzhaber's top adviser on the Columbia River Crossing.Patricia McCaig, who orchestrated Kitzhaber's successful push to get the now-defunct $3.5 billion project through the Oregon Legislature, is being investigated for the possible violation of eight ethics laws, a preliminary ...
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Blind faith in the fatally flawed—and now dead—CRC starts a new I-5 conversation.

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George Crandall knows how to kill a freeway.
In the 1970s,
Crandall helped lead the fight against the Mount Hood Freeway, which
would have torn through Southeast Portland neighborhoods. In defea
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The governors of Oregon and Washington say the Columbia River Crossing is dead.The Washington senate rejected a transportation bill Saturday that contained the state's $450 million share of the $3.5 billion CRC. The outcome, thanks to the staunch opposition of the Republican majority state Senate, was largely seen as inevitable.But, Republicans aside, there are signs that Gov. Jay Inslee may have not ...
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Hint: It's not the ones over the Columbia River

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Transportation for America, a Washington DC-based campaign for increased infrastructure spending, has released an impressive web project showing every single bridge in the United States and its condition.Nationwide, one in nine bridges is structurally deficient, the report says, calling upon government leaders to up spending for such projects.The project then goes even further, ranking states with ...
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New legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives may put the Columbia River Crossing even further behind schedule.The U.S. House Appropriations Committee introduced legislation today upholds rules that keeps federal transit funding from going to projects like the CRC that haven't yet earned local funding and vital permits.Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) is a member of the U.S. House Appropriations ...
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The first of two public U.S. Coast Guard meetings on the Columbia River Crossing is tonight at the Red Lion in Jantzen Beach. The meetings are set to run from 5 pm to 8 pm (the second is tomorrow in Vancouver) and include public testimony. The Coast Guard is still trying to decide if it will grant a vital permit to the $3.5 billion megaproject, which wants to build new Interstate 5 spans at 116 feet ...
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Republicans in the Washington Senate have taken to social media to say state funding for the Columbia River Crossing is dead.Proponents have said that unless Washington comes up with its $450 million share of the project this year, the CRC loses its spot in line for ample federal spending on the Interstate 5 bridges, interchanges and light rail.If word out of the majority Senate Republican caucus in ...
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Columbia River Crossing supporters yesterday trumpeted the news that the project was close to striking a deal with Oregon Iron Works to mitigate the harm 116-foot-tall Interstate 5 bridges will do to its business. But the other two major manufacturers affected by the project say they're nowhere near a deal and are worried the slow pace CRC negotiators are moving at may prevent them from reaching ...
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